Ingolstadt

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Ingolstadt
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Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Administrative region	Upper Bavaria
District	urban district
Population	121,801 (2005)
Area	133.35 km²
Population density	911 /km²
Elevation	374 m
Coordinates	48°45′ N 11°25′ E
Postal code	85049-85057
Area code	0841, 08450
Licence plate code	IN
Mayor	Dr. Alfred Lehmann (CSU)
Website	ingolstadt.de

Ingolstadt is a city in the Federal State of Bavaria, Germany. It is located at 48°46′N 11°26′E, along the banks of the Danube River in the center of Bavaria. As of December 31, 2005 it had 121,801 residents, making it the sixth largest city in Bavaria.

The headquarters of the German automobile manufacturer Audi are located in Ingolstadt, as well as the headquarters of the electronic stores MediaMarkt and Saturn. Ingolstadt is connected to Nuremberg via a 300 km/h high speed railway line. Service started on 28 May 2006.

See also: University of Ingolstadt

1 History and culture
2 Ingolstadt School of Management
3 University of Applied Sciences
4 Literary references
5 Sister cities
6 Organizations and clubs
7 External links

[edit] History and culture

Ingolstadt was first mentioned in a document of Charlemagne on 6th of February 806 as "Ingoldes stat", the place of Ingold. About 1250 Ingolstadt was granted city status.

Ingolstadt was the capital of the duchy Bavaria-Ingolstadt between 1392 and 1447. Then Ingolstadt was united with Bavaria-Landshut. Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria ordered to build the New Castle, which is strongly influenced by French Gothic. In 1472 Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria founded the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Ingolstadt, which was moved to Landshut in 1800 and finally to Munich.

Originally a fortress city, Ingolstadt is enclosed in a medieval defensive wall. The Bavarian fortress (1537-1930) nowadays holds the museum of the Bavarian army. During World War I, future France president Charles de Gaulle was detained there as a prisoner of war. A sapper's drill ground is still crossing the river, two military air bases are nearby, one used for testing airplanes. The long military tradition of the city is reflected in today's civil and cultural life. Former "off limit" grounds are now well used public parks, the famous writer Marieluise Fleißer wrote Pioniere in Ingolstadt in 1928.

Ingolstadt was the city where William IV, Duke of Bavaria wrote and signed the Bavarian Reinheitsgebot in 1516, the eldest food law still in use. Adolf Scherzer composed the Bayerischen Defiliermarsch, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is related to the Ingolstädter alte Anatomie, now museum for medical history. In 1748, Adam Weishaupt was born in Ingolstadt.

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[edit] Ingolstadt School of Management

Ingolstadt is home of one of Germany's foremost business schools. The "Ingolstadt School of Management" is the faculty of business administration and economics of the "Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt".

In national rankings the B-school regularly scores among the top ten, which is due to its high academic quality and excellent student-professor-ratio. The faculty maintains a vast network of partner universities for international educational exchange.

Currently, the Ingolstadt School of Management offers bachelor and master degrees in business administration (in German: "BWL - Betriebswirtschaftslehre"). Among the academic programs offered are also an executive MBA and doctoral degrees.

[edit] University of Applied Sciences

Another institution of higher education is the "University of Applied Sciences", a German "Fachhochschule" focusing on engineering (Fachhochschule) The degree obtainable is the German degree Diplom Ingenieur (Dipl.-Ing. (FH)). New degrees offered as of 2010 will be in line with the Bachelor and Master system.

University of applied sciences (Fachhochschule)

[edit] Literary references

Ingolstadt is the setting for Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel Frankenstein and is a pivotal location in The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.

Dr. Faust is mentioned in an old and short local Tale.

The X-Files episode, "The Post-Modern Prometheus", makes a reference to the University of Ingolstadt. This was possibly a Frankenstein reference, as the episode was filled with them.

[edit] Sister cities

Image:Flag of Scotland.svg - Kirkcaldy, Scotland, United Kingdom
Image:Flag of France.svg - Grasse, France
Image:Flag of Italy.svg - Carrara, Italy
Image:Flag of Slovenia.svg - Murska Sobota, Slovenia
Image:Flag of Serbia (state).svg - Kragujevac, Serbia
Image:Flag of Turkey.svg - Manisa, Turkey
Image:Flag of Poland.svg - Opole, Poland
Image:Flag of Russia.svg - Central District, Moscow, Russia

[edit] Organizations and clubs

MTV 1881 Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt's major sports club
FC Ingolstadt 04, Footballclub in Regionalliga
Ingolstädter Schanzer, Baseballteam in 2. Bundesliga
ERC Ingolstadt, Icehockeyteam in DEL

[edit] External links

Ingolstadt Official website of the city (in German)
University
University of applied sciences (Fachhochschule)
Museum of the Bavarian Army (in German)
Audi
A history of Ingolstadt by Kurt Scheurer (in German)
A biography of Marieluise Fleißer (in German)
Pioniere in Ingolstadt by Marieluise Fleißer (in German)
inregio Regionalportal Ingolstadt Official website of inregio (in German)
Suchmaschine regional Ingolstadt Official website of inregio Spider (in German)* Weblinks aus Ingolstadt

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